Dedication of Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park

Pocahontas Times
June 28, 1928

Program

Dedication of the Droop Mountain Battlefield as a State Park

Pocahontas county will gather on the Droop Mountain Battlefield on the Droop Mountain
Battlefield on Seneca Trail, south of Hillsboro on July 4[.] Governor Gore will receive for the
State of West Virginia from the legislative commission the battlefield park, which is set aside as
a memorial for all time of the greatest battle of the Civil War fought on West Virginia soil. The
following program has been prepared. Come and bring your own dinner with something extra for
the strangers from other counties who will be with us on that day: